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Ryan Sholin

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  • Five ways to innovate today

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    A colleague looking for a few new ways to integrate free Web services into his newsroom asked me to chip in with a list of five, so here they are. A note to student journalists: These are all free and easy ways to get something new and different online, and they probably serve a need…

  • Notes on breaking news

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    Last June in the most popular post ever on this blog, I said this: “You ignore new delivery systems at your own peril. RSS, SMS, iPhone, e-paper, Blackberry, widgets, podcasts, vlogs, Facebook, Twitter — these aren’t the competition, these are your new carriers. Learn how to deliver your content across every new technology that comes…

  • Reader poll redux: Who are you?

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    http://s3.polldaddy.com/p/139693.js survey software – Take Our Poll Let’s try this again, as the folks at PollDaddy say the lolcats have cleared out of the servers now. Jump in and check a box to rough up some unscientific numbers on who is reading this blog. Are you a pro journalist, a j-school student, a for-the-love-of-it blogger,…

  • Make me cry.

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    I’ve been repeating versions of this on recent training rounds when folks ask about learning Flash, so I thought I’d post it here for reference and credit purposes… Richard Koci Hernandez, near the end of a great Starter Kit page at Multimedia Shooter: “Soundslides or Flash? Put it this way, if you don’t know what…

  • Rethink carefully.

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    I’m posting the following as a comment on the Mercury News Rethink blog in response to Jay Rosen’s call for input as to how a Merc beatblogger on green technology could have covered the “Al Gore joins Kleiner Perkins” story this week. I’m going to throw a monkeywrench at the Rethink works here, just to…

  • If it weren’t for those meddling Montana kids…

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    The funny thing about disruption and disintermediation is that you never see it coming if you’re the incumbent, the old school, the big slow mover lumbering into the future baby step by baby step. Know what I mean? Wes Eben, publisher of the Big Horn County News in Hardin, Montana knows what I mean. Well,…

  • Meeting story hydraulics

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    John Robinson, editor at the Greensboro News & Record, on stepping away from the “meeting story”: “Welcome to the world of hard choices. It’s always been this way. We don’t cover everything. We don’t even cover what we used to. Newspaper staffs are getting smaller, yet the number of meetings and events, of commissions and…

  • “We know what to do, but we can’t get it done.”

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    To elaborate on the somewhat derisive one-liner (about Jay Rosen’s New Assignment plan for beat blogging with a social network) that I dropped into a post a couple days ago… I think it’s a great idea. It will work. Good stories will come out of the project. And that’s where I get off the bus,…

  • The smartest thing I’ve read in a long time

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    From Deborah Potter at Advancing the Story comes a short and sweet post about NaplesDailyNews.com. “Print reporters and photographers were all told that they no longer worked for the paper, says Phil Lewis, editor and vice president of naplesdailynews.com/Naples Daily News. They were all transferred to dot.com–which the company now sees as a kind of…

  • On the Internet, nobody knows you’re an editor

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    Try as you might to control the home page of a news site, to set the agenda, to drive readers to the stories you think are most important, readers can find what they want on the Web without your help.